Chapter 508: The one-eyed old man
Gu Feiyan's face betrayed neither joy nor anger, but her eyes remained fixed on Lian Youming.
One wrong move, and the whole game was lost.
A moment's carelessness had cost her the initiative, and she had never expected it to bring her so close to defeat.
Their exchange seemed long, but in truth, only three to five minutes had passed.
Still less had she expected Lian Youming to progress so quickly.
Compared with the improvement in his martial skills, his greatest progress was probably the change in his temperament.
Outwardly, his body remained utterly still; inwardly, Yin and Yang blended into one.
As the saying went, "Unmoving in perfect stillness-this is true Yin and Yang."
In the old days, Foresight Perfection would already have counted as mastery of the Martial Way.
Before the Mystic Connection Old Monster emerged all those years ago, Huo Yuanjia, Wang Wu, and the others had more or less been at this level.
Lian Youming was somewhat surprised too. That full-force bear hug of his could crush everything in its path. His muscles contracted inward, drawing on the momentum of Dragon-Tiger Convergence and the spiraling force of Taiji Fist. Even a fierce tiger caught in his arms would have bled from every orifice and been squeezed into a heap of mangled flesh. Yet Gu Feiyan had suffered only a few broken bones.
And she appeared to have some fight left in her.
Gu Feiyan said nothing. Raising her left hand, she gripped her right arm, ran her fingers along it, then twisted and pushed, setting the arm back into place.
Lian Youming raised his eyebrows, then nodded slightly, as though he had said nothing, yet also as though he had said everything. Clenching his right fist again, he advanced.
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